The Press., 1887-03-17

T A Lennon a fish daaaGY.Was one of 6aa first Of fhe rescuers Mr Len non nays " khe Forest Hills Sta ton fhis morning when ase engine came tearing along. whistling all the way to stir people up. The engineez aioWed up cppos1te the station and sung Quito the station agent and the people on tho plat form ''The train has gone down the tin bridge. Telegraph to Boston right off. . . I jumped into my delivery wagon, winch was standing near by, and drove as fast as could for the tin bridge. When l turned into the cross-road through the field, and came up abreast of the wreck, there was no other team in sight. l went to work the best way knew how, and commenced to pull people out through the windows and through the gaping sides of the cars. J. H. Cronan and James McLaren got to the scene about the same time as did, and we all worked with will. In one of the cars that came into the highway the stove door was broken open in the fall and a flame burst out. We had no difficulty in putting out the fire, as we ripped the hanging side of the car away, and the chemical engine got here soon after the alarms and prevented the spreading of the flames if any other fire had broken out But saw no more fire, and all the people l helped to get out were killed or wound ed by the shock or the fall of the car seats and roof upon them. Some must have been killed instantly. There were four two seats facing each other as would be natural, for most all the passengers were people who took the train morning after morning. It seemed to me that most all the passengers were girls or women. There were number recognized as en- ployed ln Boston stores. Some of the dead were shockingly mangled, one woman hav- ing her head almost severed from her body. There were some narrow escapes. One girl we got out seemed to have sustained no more than slight bruises on her ankles. She was badly shaken up and, of course, very faint While we were working on these cars down in the wreck of the bridge, we feared every instant that the car bal anced on the edge of the abutment was coming down on us, as the efforts of the people in 1t to get out and of their res cuers to get them out made 1t topple as if 1t were going to slide dowR7on top of the wreck in the highway. But 1t held where. it was, and soon as the police and firemen took hold this danger was passed The scene when first got here was terrible. Shrieks came from the wrecked cars, and the struggling people you saw pinned down between the floor and the roof, and the fear of fire, were calling for help or moan ing in pain, and all the time there was the dreadful fear of fire spreading through the wreck.
 In probably no railroad disaster of equal magnitude in the United States have the casualties been confined to such narrow territory. Almost every one of the dead and wounded came from Dedham, Roslin- dale, and that immediate vicinity. In oth- CT accidents the passengers have generally come from widely separated points, and mourning has been scattered among many cities. In this case the afflicted families are closely concentrated, and the stricken neighborhoods will lament the loss of many familiar faces.
 St. Patrick's (R. C.) church at Norwich, was damaged to extent of 8 10000 to $12, 900, by fire yesterday Fully insured.
 Mark Twain says of Prof. Loisette's system of memory training, now taught at 237 Fifth Ave-, New York tProf Loisette did not create memory for memo, nothing of the kind. And yet he did for me what amounted to the same thing for he proved to me that already had memory thing which was not aware of till then. I had before been able-like most people-to store up and lose things in the dark cellar of my memory but he showed me how to light up the cellar. It is the difference ito change the figure-be- tween having money where you can't collect 1t and having if in your pocket The inforIna-